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Should be: Lies / Reality
Its the gift that keeps on giving
Everyone is rightfully making fun of ol’ Jimmy Jack, but the chain of events here is he bought a product based on claims by the maker and then used the product for those claimed features. Fraud is a crime. Texas needs to make more arrests.
He’s also 70. He’s seen water in those seven decades.
Here in Australia that would apply too. Tesla would absolutely be found negligent
Yeah, but he forgot to put it into car wash mode.
To be fair, Elon never specified exactly what he meant by the word “briefly” and the phrase “serve as a boat”
Oh wait, yes he did
My favorite part is the driver being jailed and charged with a whole host of boating crimes. No boating license, missing required tools, etc
My favorite was “not having a valid boat registration”. It is such a great addition of insult to injury. “Oh look, this dude thinks his ‘truck’ is a ‘boat’. Guess we have to cite him for not registering his ‘boat’. What a shame.”
Let us not forget that the goddamn thing can brick if you don’t put it in “car wash mode” before going through a car wash. 🤦♂️
They’re also literally death traps.
If the battery pops, starts burning?
You now have to scramble to find the extremely awkward hidden emergency manual door release.
Because the main door handles, both internal and external, are fucking fly by wire, they rely on the electronics, they’re not directly mechanical.
Oh and the ‘bullet proof glass’ that makes up the windows… well its not very bullet proof, but it is significantly harder for a human to break than normal car glass.
Like this guy is unironically lucky he did not drown and also burn to death at the same time.
Yeah i don’t get it. Like, if you can’t even give your car a standard, everyday wash without it either bricking or rusting, and there are stories of people being fucking trapped in them due to electronics failures, why the ever loving fuck would you drive it into a goddamn lake you fucking troglodyte?!
Take that, libs
I really don’t think any car ever has been as rock solid of indicator of ‘I am a mentally impaired douchebag with far more money than sense’.
Like… sure, pick your class of car that’s just wildly unnecessary, pick your brand of car that’s actually notorious for incredible maintenance costs, pick your model of car that’s just plauged by recalls…
Cybertruck trumps everything as the ultimate poser douchebag vehicle.
Surely this didn’t just happen. Surely the article is from checks image… hmm, yesterday you say. Well… I, uh, yeah.
Maybe the guy was feeling trapped in his lease and saw an opportunity to break it and sue Tesla for false advertising?
You don’t actually wash your car every day do you?
That is just… special.
Is this a joke? FFS…
It’s not necessarily permanent, but imagine not being able to use your car for at least five hours after a standard cleaning because you forgot to switch it into car wash mode.
Jimmy Jack McDaniel
Had the whole bottle I presume?
Also a burger and some popcorn
Forgetting the death trap electronics and whatnot for a second…
How are you supposed to propel yourself and steer?
Elon is a magic wizard he can figure it out.
Well, the guy did say “briefly”, so if you drive into the water with speed and the right direction, you might theoretically not need to propel yourself nor steer…
By the same logic, it can also briefly act as a plane, you just need to drive at top speed off a cliff. But don’t tell that to Cybertruck owners, or do, I am not your mother.
Also by that same logic my Toyota can also serve “briefly” as a boat.
If your Toyota is a Hilux it may as well perform way better as a boat than a Cybertruck.
There are lots of amphibious vehicles that just do that with existing tires.
Yep, deep enough tread will work as a shitty propeller and steering will work as a shitty rudder. The idea is that it can do both, not that it’s especially good at one or the other.
My dad once drove/boated/floated an old Volkswagen across a flooded road that a pickup truck couldn’t cross. A big part of why it worked is that it wasn’t weighed down by two tons of batteries.
Buoyancy is a complex equation of density, weight, etc. Its more than just weight.
Maybe that’s why Elon’s torso is shaped like that
We should find out if he weighs as much as a duck
A customer also has to activate Free Roll, which leaves the vehicle in Neutral without applying the parking brake.
Oh good, they came up with a stupid new term for something that people know, understand, has been around for well over 50 years.
But this one has to be found in a nested touchscreen menu!
I disagree, anyone with sense knew everything Elon claimed about this thing was a lie.
How could anyone know Elon was lying? His cyber truck windows were unbreakable!!
So…unbreakable windows are actually illegal. They need to be breakable for EMT rescues or emergency escape.
Apparently no one at Tesla had the balls to tell this to Musk but the engineers went ahead and fit proper windows. It’s actually quite surprising to hear how little Musk knows about anything.
So apparently while not unbreakable, these windows are still a bitch and a half to get through, verging on impossible.
This does not help when the doors also barely open under high stress conditions (like fire, being submerged etc). So you’re just kind of trapped in this death box.
Tesla got lucky though, this is a feature on all of their vehicles which reduced costs for them dramatically. Hardly any other car manufacturer has this many ‘and then they burned or drowned alive because the doors didn’t open’ stories about it.
You have a source for that? I’ve looked pretty extensively though the Florida statutes and I didn’t see anything like that. Also armored cars exist.
It isn’t a state statute. Vehicles marketed for sale in the US have to comply with NHTSA regulations, windows are a whole section.
There are rumours of people at his companies to keep Musk occupied and away from the real work.
He is surrounded by yes men
CHUNKK PLINK plink Oh my fucking god!
Right after release, firefighters failed to rescue a woman, Angela Chao, from a cybertruck which rolled into a pond killing her.
Fun fact, most articles about this appear to have been removed from search indexes, it was difficult to find on both DuckDuckGo and Google, and Google’s AI summary will claim there is no record of a cybertruck killing a billionaire.
The NYT article used as a citation doesn’t appear to say that, but I could be mistaken, if so mb.
The NYT article cited in the Wikipedia article only says it was a Tesla. The WSJ article also cited does specify it was a Model X.
Ty for the correction.
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She was blind drunk
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It was a model X.
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She backed into the pond and was so wasted she couldn’t get out
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You can easily see the archived news stories.
Angela Chao: Shipping billionaire intoxicated when she drowned in Tesla, police report shows https://share.google/H3HEeqbX5FHw9EfUS
Lemmy is as bad as Facebook.
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no record of a cybertruck killing a billionaire
That’s because they’re not stupid enough to buy a deathtrap like that, and if a billionaire wants a vehicle that can traverse water they’ll just use a submarine, preferably one made with a carbon fiber hull
Angela Chao. Angela Chao was murdered by Elon Musk. The Cybertruck which Angela Chao owned and operated killed her.
Angela Chao died in her cybertruck. Angela Chao died in her cybertruck. Angela Chao died in her cybertruck.
Do you need me to say it a few more times for it to pierce your thick skull?
I am honestly a little upset there is still somebody who thinks being a billionaire implies any minimum level of intelligence. And yes I know about the imploded submarine, but I have to assume you as serious when you don’t annotate sarcasm.
EDIT: Went from 6,0 to 7,25 overnight, we got a bunch of Elon Musk simps with their alts in here or something?
I can’t speak for everyone but my Downvote isn’t because I’m defending Musk, it’s because it appears you are sympathetic to someone who bought what Musk is selling.
Who the victims are doesn’t change how I thing laws should be enforced.
Agreed, but calling it murder is a bit far. Murder has to have intent.
I’ll get on board with manslaughter.
Semantics.
Words have meanings.
Found many credible sources, all say Model X SUV.
Went from 6,0 to 7,25 overnight, we got a bunch of Elon Musk simps with their alts in here or something?
No, you’re just like 12 different types of incorrect. She was in a Model X, and she died because she drunk drove her vehicle into a body of water. No one murdered her.
She died because firefighters were unable to break the windshield of the Tesla, because Teslas use nonstandard glass, among other mechanical failures.
You’re making this up. She was already dead when first responders arrived.
Emergency workers arrived on the scene 24 minutes after receiving a 911 call, but “due to the terrain and accessibility,” the crew had to walk to the location of the pond before they could begin attempts to rescue Chao, according to the incident report from a Blanco County first responder.
“The two deputies who were in the water standing on the submerged vehicle requested tools to break the window of the vehicle to perform a possible rescue. One EMS crew member donned water rescue PPE and entered the water with a Hallagan tool. One Firefighter entered the water wearing proper water PPE relaying tools to attempt rescue, several tools were used to attempt access to the victim,” the report said.
24 minutes after receiving a 911 call
Can you hold your breath for 24 minutes?
Nothing here says they couldn’t get through the window. They’re not special windows in this vehicle.
but i have to assume you as serious when you don’t annotate sarcasm.
You don’t actually have to do that, you don’t have to do that, you don’t have to do that
Do you need me to say it a few more times for it to pierce your thick skull?
IF YOU DON’T /S THEN ITS YOUR REAL OPINION.
Good thing your comment contains a slash-s or i would be forced to believe you were serious in saying that
Angela Chao was murdered by Elon Musk
Not liking Musk is all cool and fine, but throwing around wild fucking accusations like this is absolute insanity and you should seriously go outside to touch some grass
Elon Musk is criminally negligent resulting in multiple loss of life and should be serving decades in federal prison.
I have no idea who Angela Chao is, but Elon Musks cybertruck killed her
It was actually a model x that killed her.
Was she a billionaire?
I assume they don’t kill billionaires.
Not that it was a capable boat in the first place, but I don’t know many boats that function well upside-down.
Kayaks self correct I suppose
Jimmy Jack McDaniel
Yep.
Dude is so close to being named after 3 fast food chains
Jack McDaniels serves what I like to call an Unhappy Meal
I never thought I’d see three first names like this. Wild.
Yuuuupp.
“Jimmy Jack McDaniel”
Well it’s an amphibious exploring vehicle, so it should be fine
Think of the implications
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